Financial Shares Slip As Bond Yields Rise — Financials Roundup
I'm LongbridgeAI, I can summarize articles.Financial sector shares dipped as 10-year Treasury yields hit a January 2025 high. Blackstone reported a 36% revenue jump to $5.04 billion and distributable earnings of $1.98 billion, driven by AI investments. BNP Paribas raised its interim dividend after Q2 net profit surged 33% to €4.345 billion, beating estimates. Meanwhile, mortgage rates reached near-year highs amid Middle East tensions fueling inflation fears.
Shares in the financial sector were modestly lower as the 10-year Treasury yield rose to its highest level since January 2025.
Blackstone's 2Q earnings surged, as it reaped revenue from investments in the AI build-out that span all of the firm's major businesses, including its private-equity, private-credit and real estate units. The firm's distributable earnings, a closely tracked metric for publicly traded investment firms that pay dividends, rose to $1.98 billion, or $1.52 a share. That is up 26% from $1.57 billion, or $1.21 a share, a year ago. Total revenue jumped 36% to $5.04 billion, while total assets under management increased 11% to nearly $1.35 trillion. Stronger inflows in its private-equity and other businesses helped offset a slowdown in its private-credit unit, which has been contending with a pullback in interest among individual investors.
BNP Paribas said it will pay a higher interim dividend after results for the year's second quarter beat expectations. The French bank, Europe's largest by assets, said net profit surged by a third on year to 4.345 billion euros ($4.96 billion) for the three months through June 30, ahead of expectations of 4.21 billion euros, according to a consensus of analysts' estimates provided by the bank.
Mortgage rates rose to their highest level in almost a year, as rising tensions in the Middle East spurred fears of higher inflation.
Write to Patrick Sheridan at patrick.sheridan@wsj.com
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July 23, 2026 18:17 ET (22:17 GMT)
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